Nicola’s appointment was announced to staff last week and has now been officially confirmed by JP. She will take up her new role at the end of August.

The creation of the group editor role follows the retirement of former Derbyshire Times editor Mike Wilson in April, who had been with the newspaper for 24 years.

Nicola began her career in journalism in 1986 on her hometown paper, the Brighouse Echo, before moving first to the Halifax Courier and then the Yorkshire Post.

As chief reporter on the YP, she was one of the four-person reporting team involved in breaking the 1997 Donnygate corruption scandal, involving Doncaster Council, after a six-month investigation which later won several industry awards.

Comments

Martin Edmunds (13/07/2010 11:07:57)I couldn’t have happened to a better and nicer person. Well done, Nichola. They could not wish for a more insightful and inspirational leader at the DT and other titles

Bob Carolgees (16/07/2010 13:13:05)A step up? Are you lot taking the proverbial? With JP wages she might be on 20k a year now! Well done Nicola for staying loyal to such a deserving waste-of-space company!

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